LettersJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... give to the offer made them of the Gofpel . But Chriftians might fee that the notion is not only impro- bable , but impoffible to be true , if the redemption of mankind was purchased by the death of Jefus , which is the gofpel idea of ...
... give to the offer made them of the Gofpel . But Chriftians might fee that the notion is not only impro- bable , but impoffible to be true , if the redemption of mankind was purchased by the death of Jefus , which is the gofpel idea of ...
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... give ourselves to think over one's own or a friend's unhappiness , the more un- able we grow to express the grief that proceeds from it . It is as natural to delay a letter , at such a season as this , as to retard a melancholy visit to ...
... give ourselves to think over one's own or a friend's unhappiness , the more un- able we grow to express the grief that proceeds from it . It is as natural to delay a letter , at such a season as this , as to retard a melancholy visit to ...
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... give us as good an opportunity of practising the one , as them- felves have given an inftance of the violation of the other . Whoever is really brave , has al- ways this comfort when he is opprefs'd , that he knows himself to be ...
... give us as good an opportunity of practising the one , as them- felves have given an inftance of the violation of the other . Whoever is really brave , has al- ways this comfort when he is opprefs'd , that he knows himself to be ...
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Alexander Pope. are too many who cannot be afflifted but by what we cannot give , our money ; there are yet others who may be relieved by our counsel , by our countenance , and even by our chearfulness . The misfortunes of private ...
Alexander Pope. are too many who cannot be afflifted but by what we cannot give , our money ; there are yet others who may be relieved by our counsel , by our countenance , and even by our chearfulness . The misfortunes of private ...
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... give me a gleam of fatif- faction , in the midst of a very dark and cloudy fituation of thoughts , which it would . be more than human to be exempt from at this time , when our homes muft either be left , or be made too narrow for us to ...
... give me a gleam of fatif- faction , in the midst of a very dark and cloudy fituation of thoughts , which it would . be more than human to be exempt from at this time , when our homes muft either be left , or be made too narrow for us to ...
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Seite 270 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 140 - Homer had upon me, to write fifty verses a day, besides learned notes, all which are at a conclusion for this year. Rejoice with me, O my friend ! that my labour is over ; come and make merry with me in much feasting. We will feed among the lilies (by the lilies I mean the ladies). Are not the...
Seite 116 - I knew you, and shall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so, as the case will soon be.
Seite 222 - And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead.* I thank God, her death was as easy, as her life was innocent; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Seite 144 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Seite 138 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...
Seite 140 - Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way. Write something on the King, or Prince, or Princess.
Seite 146 - ... signs of life were found in either. Attended by their melancholy companions, they were conveyed to the town, and the next day were interred in Stanton-Harcourt church-yard.
Seite 214 - It is so with me, for you are in one thing an evangelical man, that you know not where to lay your head ; and, I think, you have no house.
Seite 122 - Those whose date is the shortest, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the boy despises the infant, the man the boy, the philosopher both, and the Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.